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The world renown San Diego Gay Men's Chorus announced its new executive director on Wednesday.

Jeff Heine (pictured above) was chosen after nation-wide search and will officially start the position later this summer. Heine is currently the executive director of the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus (TCGMC) in Minneapolis.

Despite reports that the Trump administration was against The Equality Act, a bill which proposes to add federal LGBT anti-discrimination protections across all 50 states, it passed in the U.S. House of Representatives Friday morning. It will now head to the U.S. Senate.

Although no official word has come out of the White House about its position on the Equality Act scheduled for a U.S. House vote on Friday, one unnamed administration official says President Trump is not supporting it.

In 2016, the then Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus officially announced that three naval vessels would be named after prominent U.S. civil rights leaders which include Congressman John Lewis, gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, and U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.